There’s Data Discovery and then there’s Smart Data Discovery. The former has become associated with discovering answers buried in Big Data in order to drive business value, whether to enhance decision-making, boost revenue, or improve the customer experience. Smart Data Discovery has been defined by Gartner as “a next-generation Data Discovery capability that provides business […]
Augmented Analytics Use Cases
In an era where Business Analytics is about automating the data preparation and advanced analytics tasks, Augmented Analytics promises hopes for the future generation of Citizen Data Scientists. In Augmented Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques together achieve automated Data Preparation and Business Intelligence. This innovative technology offers sophisticated tools to […]
Case Study: Artificial Intelligence Helps Bike Share Programs Get Smart
The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) reports that there were 50,000 bike share bicycles in the U.S. as of 2016, an increase of 30,000 bikes since 2012. Those bikes made 28 million trips in 2016, a 25 percent increase over 2015, and as of 2017, more than 130 North American cities had bike share programs. […]
The Impact of Data Quality in the Machine Learning Era
A significant issue in Enterprise Data Management today is Data Quality, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any Analytics or Business Intelligence system. In an era of automated and Self-Service Business Analytics, Data Quality has assumed even more importance as average business users do not often have […]
Deep Learning Use Cases
Deep Learning (DL) has become more than just a buzzword in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community – it is reshaping global business through the prolific use of autonomous, self-teaching systems, which can build models by directly studying images, text, audio, or video data. Such systems can use that data for future pattern recognition. According to […]
Artificial Intelligence Takes on Large-Scale Database Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a clear impact on databases. Among the major players, Microsoft is applying AI to continuously monitor Azure SQL database workload patterns and apply automatic tuning when it recognizes opportunities to improve the database performance, for example. And Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, which uses Machine Learning to […]
Big Data vs. Smart Data
Big Data describes massive amounts of data, both unstructured and structured, that is collected by organizations on a daily basis. This Big Data can then be filtered, and turned into Smart Data before being analyzed for insights, in turn, leading to more efficient decision-making. Smart Data can be described as Big Data that has been […]
Data Science Collaboration: How to Centralize Data Science to Power Organizations
Domino Data Lab provides a Data Science platform that empowers organizations to drive their business through the use of predictive models. The platform accelerates breakthrough research and increases collaboration and productivity of data scientists. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco. Organizations can use Domino Data Lab on-premises or in […]
Putting Blockchain Models to Work within the Enterprise
Bitcoin has made many people familiar with the term “Blockchain.” But many enterprises don’t realize that the foundational pieces that comprise this model already may be in place in one form or another for internal Blockchain use cases. Though likely they have not been packaged together to drive similar benefits within an organization. These pieces […]
Augmented Analytics and Data Discovery
In a normal business day, waiting to get critical data analyzed and presented in the form of an understandable report can be a waste of valuable time for business users of all levels. Moreover, a report developed by expert Data Scientists or other IT staff may be beyond ordinary comprehension, amounting to even more wasted […]